"Microtextiles" are miniature transluscent beadworks loomed within tiny cardboard frames. Their look
resemble photographic slides, they can be projected using a slide projector.
Microtextiles' color combination is the visual representation of corn DNA; 4 colors representing
the 4 DNA bases that carry genetic information: red, green, blue and yellow. Beside the DNA microtextiles, there
are also designs inspired by Peruvian iconography.
Microtextiles are displayed over a light table in a checkboard layout. This composition is
known in Peruvian textile art as "tocapu", a textile that carries a codex. Microtextiles references styles
of Peruvian textile art that carry encoded information.
Microtextiles create a link between an art that is highly valued in museum collections and corn, a
millenary plant specie that has been relegated. The purpose of microtextiles is to refer to corn as a cultural
patrimony, valuable as precolumbian textile art is.
Microtextiles begun in 2004, that year corn DNA was patented by Monsanto.
